Forestry

Publications

New releases
A rapid geospatial analysis of Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces in Mozambique
06/2022

FAO conducted a geospatial assessment of Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces of Mozambique for the period 2016–2021, with a particular focus on key indicators related to access to energy (biomass), food (change of agricultural land) and water (agricultural drought).

Towards sustainable wildlife management
06/2022

Zambia and Zimbabwe, with Angola, Botswana, and Namibia, constitute the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KaZa-TFCA), which is the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world (520 000 km²), whose key objective is to join fragmented wildlife habitats to form an interconnected mosaic of protected areas and transboundary wildlife corridors. In this region, wildlife populations have declined over the past three decades, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat.

06/2022

The Tarija region of southern Bolivia encompasses four ecosystems, including the critically endangered Inter-Andean dry forests. Much of the forest composition has changed as a result of intensive human intervention.

06/2022

This case study highlights the process undertaken since 2001 to understand the effect honey bees had on elephants and to develop, evaluate and implement beehive fences at several sites in Kenya.

06/2022

In Assam, northeast India, the Himalayan foothill forests provide essential habitat for the Asian elephant. The natural vegetation in the region is moist deciduous forest, but this has mainly been transformed and now contains a mosaic of land uses and vegetation.